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DESCRIPTION:Join leading ecosocialist authors and activists Andreas Malm and Thea 
 Riofrancos \nfor a discussion of how to stop the climate crisis.\n\nDate 
 and Time: Thu, October 29, 2020 @ 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-virus-the-climate-the-alternative-solutions-to-capitals-crises-tickets-126332316359\n\nFrom 
 annual ‘once a centuries’ fires, to ‘storms to end all storms’ 
 making landfall every hurricane season, the signs that capitalist climate 
 change represents a civilizational threat have never been more ominously 
 evident. It has become impossible to ignore the dire need to move beyond 
 green tinkering to an overhaul of the entire system, lest we be left with a 
 charred and blasted husk where once there was a planet. As the global fever 
 rages, we are faced with the choice of "Ecosocialism or Barbecue."\n\nIn 
 his new book, "Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency", leading environmental 
 thinker, Andreas Malm points to the state mobilizations across the globe to 
 combat the coronavirus as an example of the scale of intervention that will 
 be required to execute the just-transition we need.\n\nIf it is possible to 
 conjure trillions of dollars to combat an invisible, epidemiological 
 threat, why is the climate emergency not greeted with similar sized 
 programs?\n\nMalm will be joined for this virtual teach-in by fellow 
 activist and author Thea Riofrancos—whose new book "Resource Radicals" 
 looks at lessons for our movement from the experience in Ecuador— for a 
 conversation that will touch on this question and many more.\n\n***Register 
 through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of 
 the event. This event will have live captions and also will be recorded. 
 ****\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nAndreas Malm\nAndreas Malm is a scholar of human 
 ecology, and the author of Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, The Progress 
 of this Storm and Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher 
 Memorial Prize.\n\nThea Riofrancosis \nThea Riofrancosis an assistant 
 professor of political science at Providence College, an Andrew Carnegie 
 Fellow (2020-2022), and a Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2020-2021). Her 
 research focuses on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, 
 green technology, social movements, and the left in Latin America. These 
 themes are explored in her book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism 
 to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020) and her 
 co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 
 Books, 2019). She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and 
 serves on the steering committee of the organization's Ecosocialist Working 
 Group.\n______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837879.php
SUMMARY:The Virus, The Climate, The Alternative: Ecosocialist Solutions to Capitalist Crises
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/18837879.php
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